Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend.

The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.

You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.

To grow the power of an imagination, travel to see the world.

A good head and a bad heart make a good politician

I have not encouraged talk about man’s holy privacy, although I do respect and defend man’s right to have it.

... sometimes in life, you either laugh or you cry. And I prefer to laugh.

In China, you've got six people buying for one child. But the thing is, you've got the largest rising upper-middle class in the world.

The Federal Reserve has a responsibility to ensure the safety and soundness of financial institutions and to contain systemic risks in financial markets.

The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy.

Broken china lasts longer than unbroken.

Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.

I was in a grocery store. I saw a sign that said 'pet supplies.' So I did. Then I went outside and saw a sign that said, 'Compact cars.